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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Seneca the Younger

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

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